This book employs a wide range of perspectives to demonstrate how the East India Company facilitated cross … authority from London to India, the volume shows how the Company's history and its broader historical significance can best be …

Introduction: the arc of historical commercial relations between China and Southeast Asia / Wen-Chin Chang and Eric … transformation of Southwest China / C. Patterson Giersch -- The social life of Chinese labor / Adam McKeown -- Opium as a commodity … China and Southeast Asia, the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries / Takeshi Hamashita -- Cochinchinese coin casting and …

from their main base (in the best conditions). During the three centuries after Vasco de Gama had reached India, European … trading areas dramatically expanded to the shores of Asia, and a long period of harsh competition set the East India Companies …